Not all trouble is bad trouble, and as the life and legacy of statesman and Civil Rights activist John Lewis denotes, change can come as the result of “good trouble.” Not one to shy away from fighting ...

John Lewis died five years ago, but his philosophy of getting into "good trouble" lives on. The late Democratic representative's roots may have been in Georgia, but his work in the Civil Rights ...

On Friday the world lost a giant in the fight for civil rights when Congressman John Lewis lost his life to stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The 80-year-old legislator grew up the son of a sharecropper, ...

In a long life of activism, Rep. John Lewis never shied away from speaking out. A few quotations: “To those who have said ‘Be patient and wait,’ we must say that we cannot be patient. We do not want ...

Civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis died Friday at 80, following a battle with pancreatic cancer that he announced in December. Lewis began his work as a civil rights activist when he was ...

The country lost a civil rights giant last week when 17-term Georgia congressman and decades-long freedom fighter John Lewis succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. Lewis, who was an ally of ...

ATLANTA - Rep. John Lewis was known as one of the foremost prolific advocates for securing civil liberties, protecting human rights and building what he called “The Beloved Community” in America, ...

In a long life of activism, Rep. John Lewis never shied away from speaking out. A few quotations: “As I was growing up in rural Alabama, I saw all around me the system of segregation and racial ...